KAREN ANAND has been described as “something of a food guru, influencing the way people eat and perceive good food” in India.  In addition to writing extensively on the subject of food and wine for 30 years, Karen Anand has also set up a factory producing gourmet food products under her own brand, run a successful chain of food stores, had a niche catering business, anchored top rated TV shows, started a Gourmet Academy and has consulted for multinationals, International hotel and restaurant chains and F&B brands entering the Indian market.  She works internationally and has contributed to restaurant projects in the UK, in particular the hugely successful Bombay café in London, ‘Dishoom’. Karen has worked with Team Work Arts for their festival India by the Bay in Hong Kong in January 2016.   (See Link).

In 2006, she was awarded the prestigious Food & Spirit Award (Trophée de l’Esprit Alimentaire) for Culture from the French Government. She is the founder of the hugely successful Markets by Karen Anand, a wholefoods food and drink fair, which is now in 8 Indian cities. Relentless, she has returned to her first love, food and travel writing, a passion which takes her around the world, where she reports and reflects with depth, complexity and generosity… and with great style.

She anchored the first food and travel TV show in India, the Good Food Guide in 1996 – 52 episodes for Star TV.  She continued her career in TV with Cook na Kaho (don’t call me a cook’) See Link, where she taught young celeb men how to cook.  She also did a brief stint reviewing restaurants for Trendmill on CNBC.  Each series was accompanied by a book – International Cooking and Simple Cooking for Smart Men. 

She also came out with a CD rom with a compilation of easy recipes called Creative Cooking for the City Couple by Times Multimedia. See Link 1 | See Link 2